ICSC 2010

Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs

Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

David A. Evans, JustSystems Evans Research, USA

Martha Palmer, University of Colorado, USA

Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA

Conference Co-Chairs

Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Craig Martell, Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Program Co-Chairs

Ian Harris, University of California, Irvine, USA

Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA

Program Vice Co-Chairs (tentative)

Karin K. Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil

Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy

Bernt Wahl, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Industry Co-Chairs (tentative)

Udo Bub, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Jennifer Lindo, Orbis Technologies, Inc., USA

Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak, USA

Roberto Sicconi, IBM, USA

Monika Woszczyna, M*Modal, USA

Demo Co-Chairs

Radu Florian, IBM, USA

Anne Jude Hunt, Primal Fusion, USA

Robert Mertens, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany

Joy Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA

Workshop Co-Chairs (tentative)

Christian Bauckhage, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany

Asli Celikyilmaz, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland

Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany

Mark Wood, Eastman Kodak, USA

Summer School Co-Chairs

Gerald Friedland, ICSI Berkeley, USA

Elena Simperl, STI, Austria

Publicity Co-Chairs (tentative)

Samuel A. Ajila, Carleton University, Canada

Rodrigo Capobianco Guido, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Angela Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Iryna Gurevych, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Ming (Mia) Mao, SAP Research, USA

David Ostrowski, Ford, USA

Ilja Radusch, TU Berlin, Germany

Jie Yang, NSF, USA

Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Publications Co-Chairs

Nadine Ludwig, TU-Berlin, Germany

Finance Chair

Taehyung Wang, California State University Northridge, USA

Web Chair

Chengjia. Huo, University of California, Irvine, USA

Registration Co-Chairs

Qi. Wang, University of California, Irvine, USA

Shu. Wang, University of California, Irvine, USA

Call for Workshop Proposals

IEEE ICSC 2010: The Fourth IEEE International Conference
on Semantic Computing, Pittsburg, PA, USA
September 22-24, 2010

http://www.ieee-icsc.org/

The IEEE ICSC 2010 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The workshops will focus on specific topics of the main conference. The organizer(s) of approved workshops are responsible for advertising the workshop, distributing the call for papers, gathering submissions, and conducting the paper review process.

Workshop proposals must include:
1. The name of the workshop, a statement of goals and a list of topics for the workshop.
2. The name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s).
3. The names of potential program committee members.
4. The Duration of the workshop (full day or half day) and the expected number of papers to be accepted.
5. A brief description of how the proposed workshop could complement the main conference scopes.

The selection of the workshops to be included in the final ICSC program will be based upon a number of factors, including: the scientific/technical interest of the topics, the quality of the proposal, the need to avoid strictly overlapping workshops, and the unavoidable need to limit the overall number of selected workshops.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit workshop proposals to the workshop co-chairs:

Christian Bauckhage, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Asli Celikyilmaz, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Ian Oliver, Nokia, Finland
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Bjorn Schuller, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
Mark D. Wood, Eastman Kodak, USA

at

icscwork@gmail.com

no later than March 22, 2010. Submission should be made by e-mail (PDF or ASCII) with "ICSC2010 Workshop Submission" in the subject header. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 19, 2010.

ICSC 2010 Industry Session Call for Papers

Program Goals and Format:

The goals of the ICSC 2010 Industry Session are to foster exchanges between practitioners and the academics, to promote novel solutions to today's challenges in the area of Semantic Computing and applications, to provide practitioners in the field an early opportunity to evaluate leading-edge research, and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development efforts. Similar to regular papers, the papers in the industry session will undergo a review process and will appear in the conference proceedings. However, the selection criteria for industry papers are slightly different. In particular, papers should describe technologies, methodologies, applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. A main goal of this session is to present research work that exposes the academic and research communities to challenges and issues important for the industry. Therefore, the papers in this session will be evaluated primarily by the novelty and applicability of the insights from its industrial solutions, instead of the originality of its algorithmic content.

Topics of Interest:

Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to those identified in the main conference CFP, as well as those listed below:

1. Development of new semantic systems, architecture, and standards

2. Employment of smenatic computing tools and interfaces

3. Employment of large scale semantic systems

4. Benchmarking and performance evalaution of semnatic systems

5. Innovative solutions for performance optimization

6. Mobile semantic systems and services

7. Multimedia semantic content analysis and retrieval systems

8. Modeling issues and case studies of semnatic computing

9. Game and entertainment applications

10. e-Business and other applications

11. Analysis of industry-specific trends and challenges

Important Dates:

May 3, 2010: Submission of papers
TBA (same as main conference): Notification of acceptance
TBA (same as main conference): Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due

Industrial Paper Submission:

Industrial papers should be submitted via the ICSC 2010 online paper submission system. For easy identification, all industrial papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title." Industry Session papers should be no longer than 8 pages with the same submission guidelines available on the ICSC 2010 web page. Only electronic submission will be accepted. All industrial papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the conference proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must not be published or submitted for another conference.

Industry Session Co-Chairs:

Udo Bub, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Jennifer Lindo, Orbis Technologies, Inc., USA
Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA
Roberto Sicconi, IBM, USA
Monika Woszczyna, M*Modal, USA

Call for Demonstration Proposals for ICSC2010

IEEE ICSC 2010: The Fourth IEEE International Conference
on Semantic Computing, Pittsburg, PA, USA
September 22-24, 2010

http://www.ieee-icsc.org/

The IEEE ICSC 2010 organizing committee invites proposals for demonstrations to be given at the conference. The demonstrations provide a forum for researchers as well as industry participants to demonstrate working systems, applications, tools or showcases of base technologies to the conference atteendees. The goal of the demonstrations is to show a spectrum ranging from research prototypes to pilots developed and even products that use semantic technology and provide functionality based on semantics in the context of semantic computing. For submissions to this event, it is very important to describe the demonstration setup, functionality and benefit to the viewer of the demonstration. Technical background discussion can be presented at the actual demonstration or can be submitted as an industry track or regular conference paper; the focus of the demonstration themselves should be to show the functionality to viewers. It is expected that the demonstrations are highly interactive.

Topics for demonstrations include but are not limited to:
* Content and Information Management
* Knowledge Engineering
* Data Mining
* Semantic Database Theory and Systems
* Service-oriented Architectures and Computing
* Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services
* Multimedia Semantics
* Audio and Speech Processing
* Natural Language Processing
* Semantic Search Technologies and Applications
* User Interfaces

Demonstrations are ideally demonstrating a system or application that clearly shows the benefit of using and deploying semantics and semantic technologies. In addition, tools and base technologies that implement or use semantic technology or semantic approaches are invited for demonstration.

Demonstration Setup

The demonstrations are planned to be a single event during a conference reception function, open to all conference attendees, with the goal of open and constructive discussions. One table will be provided with power as well as an Internet connection. Posters can be put up behind or next to the tables (depending on the space) either on pin boards or the wall. Demonstrators must bring any additional equipment they require as no equipment will be provided by the conference.

Demonstration Submissions

Authors submitting papers to the demonstrations must submit a 2-page paper that clearly outlines the demonstration that will be set up and the functionality a visitor to the demonstration can observe. The technical background, such as the architecture or algorithms, should not be described in detail; such a description would be better submitted to the industry track or main conference paper track. Including links to supporting material, e.g. a video on the web or a web-based demo itself, is highly encouraged. All submissions must be in double-column IEEE format and follow the specific submission guidelines on the ICSC2010 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and the accepted demonstration submissions will be included in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates

Demo Submission: May 3rd, 2010
Notification: June 7th, 2010
Camera Ready: tbd
Conference: September 22nd -24th, 2010

Submissions

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit demo proposals to the demo co-chairs:
Radu Florian, IBM, USA
Anne Jude Hunt, Primal Fusion, USA
Robert Mertens, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Joy Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University SV, USA

at

icscdemo@gmail.com

no later than May 3rd, 2010.

Call for Applications

2nd International Summer School on Semantic Computing
July 25-31, 2010
University of California, Berkeley
co-sponsored by IEEE, Institute of Semantic Computing and STI International

Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field that integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision, speech processing), natural language processing, semantic web and ontology engineering, software engineering, and other fields with the goal of creating new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentions with the content of data.

The summer school will provide an introduction to the field to senior undergraduate and graduate students. A mix of young and well-established researchers and educators will present recent research results, as for example presented in the IEEE conferences on Semantic Computing. The tutorials will be complemented by keynote talks by renowned experts in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Ontologies, Multimedia or Natural Language Processing.

The 6-day event is taking place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley and the curriculum will include the following topics:
- Formal Semantics
- Semantic Web
- Ontology Engineering
- Multimedia
- Natural Language Processing

Important Dates:
* May, 1: Application deadline
* May, 15: Notification of acceptance/Registration opens
* June, 15: Registration completed
* July, 25: School starts

For instruction on how to apply and other information, please visit the following website: http://sssc2010.org